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No. 284,890. v Patented Sept. 11,1883.

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RUSSELL B. PERKINS, OF MERIDEN, OQNNEOTIOUT, ASSIGNOR TO EDW. I MILLER 85 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CHANDELIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,890,. dated September 11, 1883.

Application filed July 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUssELL B. PERKINS, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Chandeliers; and I do hereby declare the'following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letof the arm will pass and usually fit.

ters-of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, atop view; Fig. 2, a section online a; w of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a sectional side view of the central part of a chandelier, showing the arm-holding device in place.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for securing the arms in lampchandeliers. These arms are made from tubing, or with a cylindrical shank which will enter a center-piece, and in which center-piece the arms are secured.

The object of my invention is to construct the center-piece in a cheap and durable man-.

ner, and so that the arms may be securely held; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

The center-piece, which hasthe usual position in the chandelier, is composed of a disk,

A, having a vertical flange, B, around its edge,

through which flange, at the proper points, holes a are made, through which the shank 1) Within this center is a flange, O, in which holes (I are made, corresponding to the holes in the outer flange, and into which the inner end of the shank will enter. In each of the shanks a horizontal groove, 6, is made on the upper side, near the inner end.

D is a disk placed over the center-piece, and 0 upon the under side of which is a circular flange, f, corresponding to the groove e in the shanks, and so that when the flange f is en; tered into the groove, as seen in Fig. 2, the arms are held in place. This disk D is secured by several screws, E, introduced through it into the other disk, or vice versa, or the in ner flange, C, may be screw-threaded upon its outside, as at h, and the interior of the flange f correspondingly threaded, and so that the disk D may be screwed onto the interior flange, C, until the flange f bears properly in the grooves of the shank of the respective arms. This makes a very simple construction, easily understood, and not liable to derangement.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, the construction and arrangement of a holder within the body of the chandelier to grasp the arms inserted therein, as such I am aware is not new.

I claim The herein-described improvement in centers for chandeliers, consisting of the disk A, constructed with the outer and inner flanges, B 0, each of said flanges constructed with 6 5 openings to receive the shank of the respective arms, combined with the disk D, constructed with a flange, f, upon its under side to set into a corresponding groove at the end of the respective arms, andmeans, substan- 7o tially such as described, to secure said two disks together, substantially as described. 7

RUSSELL B. PERKINS.

W'itnesses:

BENJ. O. KENNARD, Lnwis E. Fnosr. 

